Crêpes with Goat’s Milk Caramel

Crepas de Cajeta

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Preparation info
  • 16

    crêpes
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Dos Caminos Mexican Street Food

By Ivy Stark

Published 2013

  • About

Cajeta isoften confusedwith dulce de leche, the Argentine caramel made with cow’s milk, while the more intricate, deeplyflavored cajeta ismade with goat’smilk. The name comes from a small balsa-woodbox, or cajita, specially made to store the caramel before refrigeration was widespread. Homemade cajeta isinfinitely superior to storebought versionsexcept in the caseofthe old-fashioned Dulcería de Celaya, in MexicoCity, where they havebeen selling sweets since 1874, including their world-famou